Broom-holder



(No Model.)

J. H. ALLISON. BROOM HOLDER.

Nu l 14,998. Patented Jan. 20, 1891.

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' A TTOHNE YS ITED STATES JESSE H. ALLISON, OF NETV VIENNA, OHIO.

BROOM-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 4&4398, dated January 20, 1891.

Application filed June 3, 1890- Serial No. 354,103. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1', JESSE H. ALLISQN, of New Vienna, in the county of Clinton and State of Ohio, have invented a new and use ful Improvement in Broom-Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact de scription.

This invention relates to an improved broom-holder of a style wherein a wire strand is employed to form the holder, the object being to provide a simple, cheap, and practical device of the character named, a further object being to provide abroom-holder which may be conveniently moved from one locality to another and be hung upon a vertical support for service.

To these ends my invention consistsin certain features of construction, as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a front elevation of one of the improved broom-holders with a broom in position thereon, the broom-handle being broken. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the holder mounted upon a bracket-board; and Fig. is a vertical section of the broom-holder and bracket-board, taken on the line 3 3 in Fig. 2.

The broom-holder proper is made of a single piece of elastic wire, the gage of which is suitable to afford requisite strength for service. Said strand of wire is preferably coated with non-oxidizable material, its length being sufficient to permit the device to be bent complete therefrom.

As shown in Fig. 2, the wire strand from which the holder is to be produced is first bent downwardly at b b, which points are equally distant from the point a, that represents the longitudinal center of the wire strand. The length of the straight bar or spacing member 0 that results from the bends b is proportioned to the required capacity of the broo1n-holder. The depending limbs 61 below the bends b are outwardly and upwardly curved, so as to form supports 1), whereon the curved head of the broom may be seated, as shown in Fig. 1. Ate thelimbs cl are terminated by bending the material laterally and upwardly to a proper extent and then bendin git downwardly and inwardly to form the return curves f, the wire end portions extending slightly within the corner bends b, and the terminals of the wire strand have eyes g formed thereon for the reception of screws.

It is necessary for the clamped retention of the holder upon a side wall of a room or upon the bracket-board A that a short bend be given to the wire at h where it crosses the member 0, so as to seat the looped eyes 9 upon the structure whereon the holder is to be attached and cause a clamping-pressure to be produced upon the transverse bar a near the bends l).

It will be seen that the formation of the broom holder as described will produce upwardly and outwardly projecting claspingloops thereon, which are adapted to yield elastically at the eornerbends b, but are held from too great lateral divergence by the member 0, while the curves at b and fare measurably stiffened by an engagement of a broom therewith, and as it is apparent that when the edges of the broom engage these curved portions of the holder they will be sprung downwardly by the wedging action of the broom, and as the loops are held at the eyes g, the strain thrown on these curved supports tends to force the loop portions 11 toward each other when the bent portions fare caused to diverge, thus firmly clasping the broom and holding it.

Should it be desired to provide a portable broom-holder, which will enable the user to change the holder from one point in a room to another locality, the holder proper is secured upon the bracket-board A by screws. Said board is made of any suitable dimensions and form, a perforation being made at z' for a removable engagement of the bracketboard with a screw or nail in the wall of the room or any upright stable structure where the broom-holder is to behung, the broom be ing introduced within the holder in an obvious manner.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A broom-holder formed from a single wire llCO consisting in a longitudinal strand or CI'OSS- just below the cross-piece, substantially as piece a, looped limbs d, depending from the set forth. ends thereof, curved at b to form supports,

and extending upward and outward to the JESSE ALLISON points f f, above the cross -pieoe a, thence Vitnesses: downward and inward across the saidcross- J. J. PITTSER,

piece, as at h h, and provided with eyes 9 g F. O. ALLISON. 

